Towards European Constitutionalism 2200-FOR13

The seminar, which is organised annually, is devoted to various aspects of the constitutional reality of the European Union. In January the interested students are divided into teams and assigned topics to elaborate, which eventually are to take shape of essays 20-25 pages long. Before the final session there are 3-4 preparatory meetings with Prof. Wyrzykowski, during which the work progress is monitored and the students' ideas and problems discussed. In the second week of May the teams present their results at the seminar monitored by the European Constitutionalism experts.

The group of international experts visiting the seminar usually include:

Prof. Christophe Hillion (University of Leiden)
Prof. Franz Mayer (University of Bielefeld)

Seminar is also regularly attended by scholars from the Warsaw University, who are its active participants. In addition to Professor M. Wyrzykowski, Polish experts include: dr Adam Bodnar, the Ombudsman of Poland, dr hab. Jakub Urbanik, dr Dorota Pudzianowska and mgr Piotr Korzec.

The overview of the most recently discussed topics:

1. The Notion of a Common Constitutional Tradition
2. The Constitutional Competences of the European Court of Justice
3. Fundamental Rights in the ECJ case-law (Luxembourg versus Strasbourg Influences and Perceptions),
4. European Integration before the French Conseil Constitutionnel in Comparative Perspective,
5. III Pillar Cooperation, the European Arrest Warrant.
6. Ideas and Directions in Addressing the European Constitutional Crisis,
7. Turkey as a Prospective Member State and the Turkish Side of the Story,
8. Switzerland and the EU: Integration without Membership
9. Corporate Social Responsability from the Point of View of the Charter of Fundamental Rights
10. Same-sex couples and freedom of movement of EU citizens
11. European Criminal Law – freezing and confiscation of proceeds of crime in the EU.

There were already 14 successful editions of this seminar.
The overview of the last edition one may be found at:

http://pl.zpc.wpia.uw.edu.pl/european-constitutionalism/2015-rule-of-law-in-the-european-union/